Flies in Paradise

As a consequence of his youthful stubbornness, Baldassare found himself condemned to wander the earth in a seemingly fruitless search for the cause of man's ills. He marched with Alexander to the Indus; he was with Napoleon at Austerlitz. His travels took him through all the world's great civilizations from Ancient Egypt to the chaos of the present day. This novel explores what must surely be the intolerable horror of eternal life. Robert Shelley was a freelance medical editor, and he has written a number of journals and books.